St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-05
OUGHT TO BE THANKFUL FOR
TMAT.

The service of cars on st. Anthony hill
Is an elegant thing you'll admit;
You can stand up for hours and hold by the
straps,
Without ever firing bit.
But from until in the evening these cars
Are crowded by men, lean and fat;
We're obliged to hang on by the skin of our
teeth,
And we ought to be thankful for that.
Once month at the high school assemblies a
board,
Who looks after our girls and our boys;
Education's the subject that ought to rule
Ventilation creates the most noise.
They discuss oxygen in its various forms,
Call Osborne, the plumber, fiat;
In the hullaballoo some one moves to ad-
journ-
Well, we ought to be thankful for that.
The pugilists, Kien and Cardiff, of late
Have INDUCED in good deal OF quiz,
And each, in the press, at convenient times
The others attempting to bluff.
Some day in the future these sluggers will
meet,
And settle their long-winded spat.
The knowing ones say that both will be killed
Well, we ought to be thankful for that.
The new commerce bill that has lately been
passed,
Has kicked up dust Ia st. Paul;
The Pioneer Press has gone daft on the thing,
Discussing the long and short haul.
The dear little pass that we cherished so
much.
Nowadays wouldn't carry cat;
We must put up the ''boodle" or take O. tie
pass,
And we ought to be thankful for that
You'll observe, if you visit the theater now,
That the ladies' headgear is quite tall,
And if seated in rear Of a cute little dear,
You can't see the actors at ALL
But the manager says we can sit with 1.-The
gods"
And gaze DER the turban and hat;
It comes rather high, but well fashion defy,
And we ought to be thankful for that.
The red man at one time owned all of the
land
That is now tramped upon the whites,
But we crowded him west by superior force,
And despoied him of all of his rights.
We bounded the poor creatures both day and
night,
Like one would a dog or rat
The very next move they go into the sea,
And they ought to be thankful for that
The treatment of Erin by famed Johnny
Bull
Is theme for all people just now.
The Irish are asking to govern themselves,
But the Briton so much wont allow.
The Scotch and the WEIGH, the Canadians,
too,
Have all fair shake, but for Pat
He must pay the rent, sir, or die in the
ditch,
And he ought to be thankful for that.
oh. happy the man who's father you say,
All Joy and all pleasure his life,
With a sweet little cherub-an innocent
child
And a deor littla d,,olr Of a u;fa
His sleep is disturbed at all hours of the
night
BY the tiendish yells of the brat,
While his Wife shores away ut terrible rate,
And he ought to be thankful for that.
The spoilsmen at present are tearing their
hair,
Indeed they're exceedingly warm
And they're cursing their fate aud they re
lying in wait
To choke civil service reform.
For the past twenty years they have voted
And that, sure the straight Democrat;
And now that they've won, they get nothing
at all,
And they ought to be thankful for that.
When the hot weather comes we HE ourselves
forth
To summer hotel by the sea,
And there we can bask in the beau iful
breeze,
Or sit meath the shade of tree.
AT night we can lie on a soft, iowny couch,
Not bothered by ant or by gnat.
They remove all these pests, but they leave
us the bugs,
And we ought to be thankful for that
You'll perceive If you pick up the last fashion
And p casually riS,>,p lance,
That Il new innovatf FAtely arrived
In the shape OF a fI lens pants.
The broomsticks Il, Re up our
streets
Now encirced A
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